P-I reporter Andrea James provides an overview of cloud computing, writing about the efforts of companies such as Amazon.com, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce.com and quoting from recent talks by Steve Ballmer and Jeff Bezos about the trend. She writes:
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A petition is circulating to create a 300-foot tall satirical statue of Paul Allen in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle, where the Microsoft co-founder is a major landowner, according to the P-I’s Monica Guzman.
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Rafe Needleman puts together a list of the “10 Worst Web Glitches of 2008 (so far)” and Amazon.com has the unfortunate distinction of being mentioned twice for outages that occurred in February and June.
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A Seattle area venture capitalist and former wireless executive has been named to the board of Yahoo as part of a move to “ward off a proxy fight” with investor Carl Icahn, according to The Associated Press.
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